Yes. He really thought it was efficient and would avoid errors if literally all variables were defined in a single Matlab function he called at the beginning of the script. We students all thought: "Man, are you serious?" As we didn't want to debug such a mess, in our code, we ignored what he was doing and kept using local variables.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah I misread I thought it was specifically a programming course. I can expect this from a math prof.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, it was a course on finite deformation material models. And no, you do really, really not want to declare each and every variable in your material subroutine globally for the whole finite element program.